Patents by Inventor Takayuki TANGE

Takayuki TANGE has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11984254
    Abstract: A magnetic-component module includes a substrate, a core on a first surface of the substrate, a spacer on the core, a winding including wire bonds extending over the core and electrically connecting a first portion of the substrate and a second portion of the substrate, and traces on and/or in the substrate, a lead frame that supports the core and that electrically connects the winding to the substrate, and an overmold material encapsulating the core, the spacer, the wire bonds, and a portion of the lead frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lee Francis, William Jarvis, Takayuki Tange
  • Patent number: 11978581
    Abstract: A magnetic-component module includes a substrate, a core on a first surface of the substrate, a spacer on the core, a gap between a bottom surface of the core and the first surface of the substrate, a winding including wire bonds extending over the core and electrically connecting a first portion of the substrate and a second portion of the substrate, and traces on and/or in the substrate, and an overmold material encapsulating the core, the spacer, and the wire bonds and filling the gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lee Francis, William Jarvis, Takayuki Tange, Shouhei Hirose
  • Publication number: 20240055177
    Abstract: A magnetic component includes a substrate or a lead frame including a primary conductive pattern and a secondary conductive pattern; a magnetic core located on or above of the substrate or the lead frame; a block coil including a resin body that is located on or above the substrate or the lead frame and that extends over the magnetic core, a first terminal that is on or embedded in the resin body and that is connected to the primary conductive pattern, and a second terminal on or embedded in the resin body and that is connected to the secondary conductive pattern; and an insulating material covering the substrate or the lead frame, the magnetic core, and the block coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki TANGE, Lee FRANCIS, Scott Andrew PARISH, Rohit SIDAPARA
  • Publication number: 20240055178
    Abstract: An electronic module includes a substrate or a lead frame including primary conductive patterns and secondary conductive patterns; a magnetic core; a block coil including a resin body that is located on or above the substrate or the lead frame and that extends over the magnetic core, first terminals that define a first terminal group and that are on or embedded in the resin body, and second terminals that define a second terminal group and that on or are embedded in the resin body; an IC; and a capacitor. Two first terminals of the first terminal group are connected to corresponding primary conductive patterns; two second terminals of the second terminal group are connected corresponding secondary conductive patterns; and a first primary conductive pattern is closer to a second primary conductive pattern than any of the secondary conductive patterns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Takayuki TANGE, Lee FRANCIS, Scott Andrew PARISH, Rohit SIDAPARA
  • Publication number: 20240039412
    Abstract: A converter includes first and second input terminals; an integrated circuit (IC) that is a non-resonant, step-down, and point-of-load IC, that is connected to the first and second input terminals, and that includes a feedback terminal and switch-output terminal; a voltage-sense circuit connected to the feedback terminal and the switch-output terminal; a transformer that includes a primary winding connected to the switch-output terminal; a capacitor connected in series with the primary winding; a rectifier connected to a secondary winding of the transformer; and first and second output terminals connected to the rectifier. The converter is operated in a resonate mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventor: Takayuki TANGE
  • Publication number: 20230422400
    Abstract: A device includes a substrate including a cavity, a magnetic core in the cavity, a first winding extending around the magnetic core, and a single channel that extends between the cavity and an exterior of the device and that defines an opening. The first winding includes vias along an exterior periphery of the magnetic core opposite to the channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Takayuki TANGE, Neil STEPHENSON, Lee FRANCIS
  • Publication number: 20230335335
    Abstract: A device includes a substrate; a magnetic core in the substrate and including a hole; a first winding extending through the hole and around the magnetic core; a second winding extending through the hole, around the magnetic core, and around a portion of the first winding; a first covering located on a first surface of the substrate and over a first portion of the second winding; and a second covering located on a second surface of the substrate and over a second portion of the second winding. The first and the second windings only extend around the same half of the magnetic core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventor: Takayuki TANGE
  • Publication number: 20230317349
    Abstract: A device includes a substrate; a magnetic core in the substrate and including a hole; a first winding extending through the hole and around the magnetic core; and a second winding extending through the hole, around the magnetic core, and around a portion of the first winding. The first and the second windings only extend around the same half of the magnetic core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventor: Takayuki TANGE
  • Publication number: 20230238892
    Abstract: An isolated DC-DC converter includes a non-isolated DC-DC converter as a primary side. The non-isolated DC-DC converter includes a first inductor, a switch controller, and first and second switches. The non-isolated DC-DC converter is configured to receive an input voltage. The non-isolated DC-DC converter also includes a secondary side including a second inductor, a full wave rectifying circuit, and a filter circuit. The second inductor in the secondary side is coupled with the first inductor in the primary side to define a transformer. The secondary side is electrically isolated from the primary side by the transformer and is configured to output a DC voltage based on a voltage induced in the second inductor via the transformer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventor: Takayuki TANGE
  • Publication number: 20230170810
    Abstract: A DC-DC conversion circuit includes an input voltage; a half-bridge circuit connected to the input voltage and including a first leg with first, second, third, and fourth switching elements connected in series and including a second leg with first and second capacitors connected in series with each other and connected in parallel with the first leg; and a flying capacitor connected to a node between the first switching element and the second switching element and a node between the third switching element and the fourth switching element; a transformer including a primary winding connected to the half-bridge circuit; and a controller that controls the first to fourth switching elements. The controller selectively controls the half-bridge circuit in a half-bridge operation in which ±Vin/2 is applied to the primary winding, where Vin is the input voltage and a 3-level half-bridge operation in which ±Vin/4 is applied to the primary winding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventor: Takayuki TANGE
  • Patent number: 11657951
    Abstract: An embedded transformer module device includes an insulating substrate including a first side and a second side opposite to the first side and including a first cavity, a magnetic core in the first cavity, a primary winding wound horizontally around the magnetic core and having a spiral shape with more than one turn, and a secondary winding wound horizontally around the magnetic core, spaced away from the primary winding, and having a spiral shape with more than one turn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takayuki Tange
  • Publication number: 20220344260
    Abstract: A module includes a substrate, metal layers and insulating layers laminated on the substrate, a bottom winding made of a metal directly contacting a first metal layer or a second metal layer, a first insulating layer on the bottom winding, a core on the first insulating layer, a second insulating layer on the core, a top winding made of the metal that is located on the core and a portion of the second insulating layer and that directly contacts the first metal layer or the second metal layer, and a third insulating layer on the top winding, electronic components that are located on the third insulating layer, where primary and secondary windings of the transformer are defined by portions of the bottom winding and the top winding and are located on opposite sides of the core from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Takayuki TANGE, Yoshimitsu USHIMI
  • Patent number: 11456106
    Abstract: An inductor component includes cores, a coil disposed in the cores, and terminal electrodes. The coil includes first metal plates disposed on an upper surface of the cores, second metal plates disposed on a lower surface of the cores, and a plurality of metal pins each passing through one of the cores in a thickness direction. The coil has a helical shape by connecting the first metal plates to the second metal plates, with the plurality of metal pins therebetween. The terminal electrodes are spaced apart along a direction in which the helical shape extends, and are connected to the coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Munetake Miyashita, Takayuki Tange, Hideaki Hashi
  • Publication number: 20220278041
    Abstract: A transformer includes a silicon substrate, a plurality of metal layers and a plurality of insulating layers laminated on the silicon substrate, a bottom winding of a metal contacting a first metal layer and a second metal layer of the plurality of metal layers, a first insulating layer on the bottom winding, a core on the first insulating layer, a second insulating layer on the core, a top winding of the metal that extends around the core and a portion of the second insulating layer, and a third insulating layer on the top winding. At least one of the top winding and the bottom winding is thicker than each of the plurality of metal layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventors: Takayuki TANGE, Yoshimitsu USHIMI
  • Publication number: 20210407727
    Abstract: An embedded transformer module device includes an insulating substrate including a first side and a second side opposite to the first side and including a first cavity, a magnetic core in the first cavity, a primary winding wound horizontally around the magnetic core and having a spiral shape with more than one turn, and a secondary winding wound horizontally around the magnetic core, spaced away from the primary winding, and having a spiral shape with more than one turn.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventor: Takayuki TANGE
  • Publication number: 20210012951
    Abstract: A magnetic-component module includes a substrate, a core on a first surface of the substrate, a spacer on the core, a winding including wire bonds extending over the core and electrically connecting a first portion of the substrate and a second portion of the substrate, and traces on and/or in the substrate, a lead frame that supports the core and that electrically connects the winding to the substrate, and an overmold material encapsulating the core, the spacer, the wire bonds, and a portion of the lead frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventors: Lee FRANCIS, William JARVIS, Takayuki TANGE
  • Publication number: 20210012950
    Abstract: A magnetic-component module includes a substrate; a core on a first surface of the substrate; a spacer on the core; a winding including wire bonds extending over the core and electrically connecting a first portion of the substrate and a second portion of the substrate, and traces on and/or in the substrate; and an overmold material encapsulating the core, the spacer, and the wire bonds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventors: Lee FRANCIS, William JARVIS, Takayuki TANGE
  • Publication number: 20210012952
    Abstract: A magnetic-component module includes a substrate, a core on a first surface of the substrate, a spacer on the core, a gap between a bottom surface of the core and the first surface of the substrate, a winding including wire bonds extending over the core and electrically connecting a first portion of the substrate and a second portion of the substrate, and traces on and/or in the substrate, and an overmold material encapsulating the core, the spacer, and the wire bonds and filling the gap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventors: Lee FRANCIS, William JARVIS, Takayuki TANGE, Shouhei HIROSE
  • Publication number: 20200403512
    Abstract: A control circuit module includes FETs each including a control terminal, an input terminal, and an output terminal, a control circuit connected to the control terminals and controlling on/off operations of the FETs by outputting a control signal to the control terminals, a first package including the FETs and the control circuit provided therein and including a first surface, a second surface, and a third surface, which is a side surface perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the first surface and the second surface, first electrodes provided in the first package and exposed from the first surface of the first package, and a second electrode that is provided in the first package and exposed from the second surface of the first package.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: Takayuki TANGE, Munetake MIYASHITA, Yuji TAMURA, Tatsuya YOSHINAKA, Hideaki HASHI
  • Patent number: 10714252
    Abstract: An inductor includes a first terminal and a second terminal, a first inductor conductor layer and a second inductor conductor layer, a magnetic core layer, and via conductors. The magnetic core layer is disposed between the first and second inductor conductor layers. The via conductors are connected to the first and second inductor conductor layers. The first and second terminals are electrically connected through the via conductors. The magnetic core layer includes a first magnetic substance portion including a first magnetic substance, and a second magnetic substance portion including a second magnetic substance. Magnetic properties of the second magnetic substance are different from magnetic properties of the first magnetic substance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Munetake Miyashita, Yuji Tamura, Takayuki Tange, Hideaki Hashi, Takeshi Wake, Yasuhiro Higashide